I installed the NVIDIA 260.19 driver from PPM and I'm having a strange issue.
The driver is working but nvidia-settings tells me to run nvidia-xconfig to configure xorg.conf properly.
The problem is that xorgwizard sets xorg.conf with
Driver "vesa" #card0driver
instead of "nvidia". But if I change that, or if I run nvidia-xconfig, then X won't start.
Is this some known issue (or non-issue)?

P4 platform with 768M ram. Frugal install Racy 5.3 on EXT3 partition (sda4 in this case). Initial boot from CD perfect, firstrun, only set timezone (Europe), rest was OK. At shutdown created save file with all defaults on same partition.

Reboot from sda4: firstrun started again, and timezone had to be set again... since I don't live in Perth....
At shutdown I needed to create a save file again ! Used same parameters and name.

This time it memorized settings at power up.

This is different from other puppies. I have never bothered about it since I do not update my system very often. But now I look at it, it may be something that can be fixed.

Most puppies, when you boot first time from CD, do create a save file when first time shut down, as requested.

Most puppies however doe NOT save settings during this first shutdown. All changes made while running from CD do not end up in the save file first time you make the changes. Only when you reboot from the installed version (generally the second time), it writes them to the save file.

With Racy 5.3 however, I am not even sure it made the save file at all while running from CD, since it asked to create a save file again. I will try to duplicate this later tonight (busy making money ... work ... distracts from the real values in life).

- @fyujj => NVIDIA drivers:
Bypassed while choosing a lower resolution and correcting later through the nvidia configuration GUI... which curiously works quite well!

@- duke93535 => JWM (even with the latest svn repository 579 JWM version, though this seems to be a bit better!)

- Something else I noticed on the previous releases (5.2.8, 5.2.9 and 5.3 but not with the 5.2.2 release - Sorry but I thought this minor issue would be finally solved and I was waiting for): when changing countries settings to French (utf-8 checked), X server seems to be disturbed and freezes. When running back to prompt, a very uggly font is displayed with strange characters.This happens with two PCs, but not exactly the same way. Nevertheless, something goes wrong...

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I installed Wary 5.3 over the last release candidate, which predictably caused a number of problems. I lost my desktop icons - easily corrected and due to change in kernel, nvidia and VirtualBox had to be recompiled.

After loading the kernel sources and devx,I installed the nvidia 71.86.15 driver with the "run" file from the manufacturer (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.15-pkg1.run). The results were, to say the least, spectacular. My GeForce FX5200 (ca. nine years old) scored ca. 7500 fps on the glxgears test. This is twice as fast as any other combination of driver and Puppy I have tried!

Argolance, I didn't understand how you made it work. For me nvidia-settings doesn't work because the nvidia driver doesn't work (it's using vesa actually, althoug I can change to nv but that uses a different screen size - not resolution).
I think I'll try the upstream driver directly as did drblock2.

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